Several times at our events, he insisted that the existence of this *possibility* made it wildly irresponsible *not* to take measures to mitigate this risk. Though I didn't say so at the time, this struck me as an AI-inflected version of Pascal's wager: 18/

I'm worried that the seven companies that comprise 35% of the S&P 500 are headed for bankruptcy, as soon as someone makes them stop passing around the same $100b IOU while pretending it's in all their bank accounts at once. 12/

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

wrote about how Platner was absolutely never going to win, and Ds have a chance to beat Collins for ME senate really for the first time this cycle. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ds-finally...

We are going to reach a point where every student is paid 50,000 dollars to take a rightwing class to turn them against the idea of government spending

I assume most of Batman's rogues know (or should know) he's Bruce Wayne, but don't see any advantage to making use of that info to stop Batman. Some might have their own psychotic or complicated reasons, but also taking out a beloved trillionaire, playboy, philanthropist would bring too much heat.

The fact that spray bottle design would last at least 2 centuries is the least surprsing thing in the universe.

Who could have predicted this? The people who predicted it don’t count btw

Clausewitz is when you shoot lots of bombs and missiles for no discernible reason or political objective and it looks really cool on tv and stuff

They’ll be no bridge then. I’ll tell the motorists - now that Hammersmith Bridge has been confirmed to stay car free, reupping my piece on how it illustrates the choices central government must make to make devolution work:

“A private school just outside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is mandating that all of its high school students purchase a Palm IIIc and a portable keyboard. According to Palm, it's the first K-12 school in the country to require its students to use handheld computers in the classroom.” (2001)

For every like this picture gets I will post another image of a foodstuff from Taiwan or Japan.

Identify the breakfast sandwich? (An ancient jingle is now in my head.)

It’s a full circle Justice Jackson mentioned books by my mentor Eric Foner, my new book on Reconstruction and my first doctoral student Ousmane Power-Greene’s book based on his dissertation on African Americans and the colonization movement!

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

That time Sinead O’Connor went in disguise to join a Sinead O’Connor protest

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

How woke was the bicentennial? Check out the “Contributors to the Cause” stamps: a woman, a Black man who bought his way to freedom, and two immigrants (one from Portugal, one a Polish Jew). Simpler times—a time when stamps, like the bicentennial, could excite a kid. Nothing wrong with that.

@alanallport.bsky.social Excellent. 'Sometimes, the more you learn about a famous person, {...}, the harder it is not to sympathise with them on some basic human level, regardless of what you might think of what they did. Neville Chamberlain is not one of those people.'

The first time I was there me and my buddy got hammered, yelled out on the street to ask where we should get a cheese steak, and two other guys got into a fistfight over the recommendations

Someone fed AI a prompt to use Portishead “Dummy” colors.

Jason’s post is worth everyone’s reposting, to achieve full Streisand Effect. The government deleted their own moderate advice, solely in a political effort to portray Mamdani’s absolutely sane advice as radical. This is their MOI. Call it out when it happens.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Kanazawa, Japan. Coach bus with teenagers waving at us. We waved back. Then we six-sevened them. They went CRAZY. Anyway now we’re in a restaurant where the eel have had enforced sex changes for flavor reasons or something.

I have nuanced feelings on it. I’m not a patriotic person. I view myself as culturally imperialized. But I also think that getting people to accept the framing that the US Flag, which represents many contradictions at once, is only a Nazi flag, is exactly what Nazis are fighting for right now.

All educators should incorporate tulips into their instruction.

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Yesterday Andy Burnham gave a bold speech about his hopes for the future as PM. He was by my poem 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' which is on permanent display at The People's History Museum, Manchester. The BBC panned to a close up of my poem as the reporter called Burnham 'a heavyweight for hope'

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

TV historian Laurence Westgaph sued us to expose our sources and posted sinister threats about me and the 'cutthroats and sell outs'. We spent £75,000 fighting him in court - a crucial first test of the 'journalism exemption' in GDPR. And we won!! ✌️ www.livpost.co.uk/a-dish-best-...

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

They could’ve held this in a Cracker Barrel parking lot and still had room to spare.

New sport just dropped.

(About a DoorDash bot that showed up to a SWAT raid.)

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I just had Liquid Glass foisted upon my phone. Is there any way to restore the search bar in Messages (etc.) to the top of the screen?

FWIW, I sent him a check for $0.13 in late 2024. Months later, the WH mailed it back to me, uncashed. I believe postage cost the US taxpayers $1.90.

"It can be an overwhelming experience when the external sound processor is first turned on. It's a lot for her brain to acclimate to. That's why I'm going to start off with 'Fabienk,' which is kind of a good gateway song if you’re just getting into these guys."

You get to the end of the stone passageway. There are two doors and two guards. One guard likes big butts and he cannot lie. The other likes big butts but he cannot tell the truth.

Like “using an LLM to take a second look at a patient’s file and see if something is being missed, then referring that suggestion to a live human MD to test” is great! But that gets lumped in with “we want to replace intake nurses with Claude” and “insurance using LLMs to review coverage decisions”

From what I've seen, Nina Schwalbe actually seems... pretty great? Supports Block the Bombs and taxing the rich and a bunch of other good stuff. www.ninafornyc.com/policy

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